He said that the only Indian politician in post independence India who drew inspiration from Adolf Hitler was Indira Gandhi.

"Yesterday I heard a few extracts of the speech delivered by Rahul Gandhi in Gujarat. He compared Narendra Modi to Adolf Hitler. Rahul Gandhi may have been a young child in 1975 when his grandmother Smt. Indira Gandhi as Prime Minister decided to proclaim the internal emergency. Surely, he is not unaware of what happened during those nineteen months of the Emergency. I was a college student at that time. As a Students Union Leader and an Activist in JP's movement I spent the next nineteen months in prison. I came across a document being circulated as a part of the underground literature which was titled "A Tale of Two Emergencies". I was later told that it had been authored by Shri L.K. Advani. This document is even now available as an annexure to Advani ji's prison memoirs titled "A Prisoner's Scrap Book"," Jaitley wrote in his blog.

"The document was based on the authentic work of history of Nazi Germany by William Shirer. Shirer's book was titled "The Rise and Fall of Third Reich" I obtained a copy of the book in prison and spent a few weeks reading it. After reading the book I had no doubt that the only Indian politician in post independence India who drew inspiration from Adolf Hitler was Smt. Indira Gandhi. The comparison between Hitler and her was startling," he wrote.

Jaitley also drew comparisons in the working style of both leaders.

" Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Within a month he invoked the emergency powers for 'the protection of the people and the state'. He restricted personal liberty, free speech, fundamental rights and imposed various restrictions on the right to privacy. The ostensible reason for proclamation of emergency was a Communist conspiracy to burn down governmental buildings. The pretext was that a day before the proclamation of emergency there was a fire at the Reich Stag. Much later the Nuremberg trials established that the fire had been engineered to provide a false pretext," he said..

" Indira ji also proclaimed the Emergency in India on 26th June 1975. She claimed that JP was leading an agitation where Armed Forces were being asked to defy illegal orders. She therefore suspended all fundamental rights including the right to life and liberty. She imposed censorship on the Press, compromised judicial independence. Her Attorney General pleaded before the Supreme Court that in the absence of the right to life and liberty a detenu could be killed in prison and he had no recourse. A pliable Supreme Court accepted this argument," Jaitley said.

"Indira ji announced a Twenty Point Economic programme and insisted the Emergency was intended for discipline and growth. Hitler had also announced a 25-Point Economic Programme which was to be implemented during the emergency," the BJP leader said.

"Hitler did not command a two-third majority in the German parliament. He therefore detained 91 Opposition MPs in order to reduce the voting strength of the House and amended the constitution giving to him absolute power. Indira ji detained a large number of opposition MPs and brought about draconian 42nd Amendment to the Constitution which had to be substantially repealed after the Emergency. She went a step further and even prohibited the publication of Parliamentary proceedings. The law which provided immunity to the media from publishing parliamentary proceedings was repealed. Curiously, this law had been proposed by Rahul Gandhi's grandfather, the Late Shri Feroze Gandhi," he said.

This comes after Rahul on Tuesday said the Gujarat Chief Minister is like Hitler as he has allegedly "stolen" farmers' land to help corporates set up units in the state.